See this dialog response. Other nearby villages to later become part of Worthing include Tarring, Salvington, Goring, Heene and Durrington, as well as small parts of the parishes of Findon and Sompting. What came before?
A 2 person dialog:
[a]. What happened in the Saxon invasion?.
[b]. Almost 100 graves were found, possibly of Saxon warriors who died in the Saxon invasion of the area..
[a]. What happened after they found the graves?.
[b]. Highdown continued to be used for some time for burials and cremations of Saxons..
[a]. Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?.
[b]. It is significant that Highdown was being used as a cemetery by pagan Saxons at the same time that Romano-British villa at nearby Northbrook, less than a mile away was still in use by local Celtic Christians..
[a]. What happened after that?.
[b]. This suggests that Celtic Britons and Saxons were able to live side-by-side in relative harmony. The Saxons settled nearby Goring and Sompting and by the 13th century the settlement, then known as Wortinge, was populated primarily by farmers and mackerel fishermen..
[a]. What did they do in Worthing?.
[b]. The hamlet of Worthing was originally part of the larger parish of Broadwater..
[a]. Did anything happen while they were there?.
[b]. 